Microsoft today officially finished the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) version of its upcoming Windows Vista operating system, with its head of development admitting he’s relieved that the ...

The Redmondians at Microsoft have finally opened the sluicegates on Beta 2 of their oft-delayed Windows Vista operating system, and your intrepid reporting team at Gizmodo jumped all over it, trying ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, will debut the long-awaited upgrade to its Windows operating system for consumers on Tuesday. Windows Vista is the first major upgrade ...

Court documents unsealed last Thursday by Judge Marsha Pechman in the class-action suit over Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's Vista Capable stickers add some new details and famous names to the ...

A new section of the Vista Web site, dubbed "Get Ready," outlines two separate programs -- a first for Microsoft with an operating system-- that spell out what's needed for a computer to handle Vista.

Microsoft Corp. will feed Windows Vista users an update in the next week to finger illegal copies installed with cracks that the company will bust when it rolls out Service Pack 1 (SP1) in mid-March.

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...